Get a Number…Give A Number. I give Oracle “7”.

There’s a game currently making the social media rounds in
which one friend assigns a random number –let’s say, “twelve”—to another
friend. The assigned friend then shares twelve little known facts about themselves.

The “Get a Number…Give A Number” game reminds me that I
might not know some of my friends as well as I think I do. It’s a rare occasion
when I meet someone who doesn’t have opinions about Oracle. Ask yourself—what
do you really know about the second largest
software company on the planet? To that end, I have randomly assigned the
number “seven” to Oracle (seven is a lucky number and every writer knows
list-based posts must have an odd number of items just like all landscaping
projects must have an add number of shrubs).

Oracle
headquarters in Redwood City occupy reclaimed tidelands and the 66 acre site
was originally Marine
World/Africa USA.

My
first boss at Oracle was a guy who I had met years before when we worked on the
same floor at JD Edwards. I didn’t know what his job was back then but we had
pleasant conversations at the copier
(remember those things?). But I digress…

Oracle
wins numerous awards
for philanthropy including being ranked #7 in the Silicon Valley Business
Journal Corporate Philanthropy Awards.

If you haven’t yet guessed, this post is a thinly veiled
attempt to get you interested in learning more about the kind of company Oracle
is today.This is not your father’s
Oracle. Today Oracle has 120,000 employees and many of us honed our skills and
gained experience prior to joining Oracle at such great companies as JD
Edwards, PeopleSoft,
Primavera,
Siebel,
Taleo,
Eloqua,
and Hyperion
. That’s where we’ve been but now our heads are in the cloud. So get to
know us better. If you’re not an Oracle customer now,
odds are—you may soon be one.